European Union Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card
- Basic information
- Lodging an application for an EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card
- Course of application proceedings for an EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card
- Extension of an EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card
- Cancelling an intra-company employee transfer card
Extension of an EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card
An EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card may be extended repeatedly on condition of satisfaction of basically the same conditions for issuance of this card for the permitted duration of intra-company transfer to the territory of EU member states, which is a total of 3 years for a manager and specialist and a total of 1 year for an employed intern.
An application for extension of the EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card must be lodged with an office of the Ministry of the Interior Department of Asylum and Migration Policy. The application must be lodged while the current EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card is still valid, but no sooner than 120 days before it expires.
If you were prevented from lodging an application to extend the EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card for reasons beyond your control, you are entitled to lodge your application within 5 days of such reasons desisting. Your residence and work permit shall remain valid until such entitlement ends. It is up to the foreign national to inform the administrative authority of and substantiate the reasons that prevented him/her from lodging an application within the stipulated deadline. The obligation to claim and to prove of such reasons lies with the foreign national. The foreign national is required to state the reasons of late lodging of the application at the very latest at the moment of lodging the application.
Required documentation for an application for extension of an EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card
An application for extension of the intra-company employee transfer card may be lodged using the “Application for Long-Term Residence” form.
To support his/her application for an EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card, the foreign national must present the following:
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a valid travel document,
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photographs if the applicant‘s appearance has changed since lodging his/her application for the currently valid card,
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upon request, a document similar to an extract from the records of the Penal Register,
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upon request, a document confirming satisfaction of the requirements of measures for preventing the introduction of infectious disease,
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proof of arranged accommodation in the territory of the Czech Republic,
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confirmation by the commercial corporation within which the foreign national has been transferred that the information contained in the transfer letter continues to apply, while stating the duration of intra-company transfer and the place of performance of work in the Territory,
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proof that the foreign national still has the required professional qualification, or that he/she satisfies the conditions for performing a regulated profession, if such profession is concerned,
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a residence permit for intra-company employee transfer issued by a different member state of the European Union.
If the foreign national or commercial corporation to which the foreign national has been or is to be transferred is participating in a government-approved programme the conditions of which allow certain supporting documents of the application to be substituted, the following items supporting the application may be substituted by a confirmation issued by such commercial corporation:
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proof of arranged accommodation in the territory of the Czech Republic,
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confirmation by the commercial corporation within which or to which the foreign national has been transferred that the information contained in the transfer letter continues to apply, while stating the duration of intra-company transfer and the place of performance of work in the Territory,
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a document proving that the foreign national continues to comply with the required professional qualification, if required by special legislation,
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the transferred employee’s residence permit issued by a different EU member state.
If you satisfy the conditions for extension of your EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card, when summonsed you will be required to report to an office of the Ministry of the Interior Department of Asylum and Migration Policy for processing of data essential for issuance of the residence permit (known as the "EU Member-State Intra-Company Employee Transfer Card"), as well as provision of biometric data. Failure to report at the summons of the MoI CR constitutes grounds for termination of proceedings on the application.
Within the deadline set by the MoI CR, but no later than 60 days after providing your biometric data, you are required to report to the MoI CR to collect your residence permit. Failure to collect your residence permit constitutes grounds for termination of proceedings on the application.
Legal fiction of validity of an intra-company employee transfer card issued by a different EU member state
As in other cases of application for extension of a long-term residence permit, even in the case of an application for extension of an intra-company employee transfer card, on condition of satisfaction of the conditions stipulated by Section 47(6) of Act No. 326/1999 Coll. so-called legal fiction applies, extending the validity of the hitherto valid residence permit which, at the request of the foreign national, may be corroborated by a so-called bridging sticker.